Here’s some cool looking homemade brushless motors made using some PC Hard drive parts and power tools…. wow!
My first home-built outrunner motor from hard drive stators (Western Digital Caviar). Motor designation is 280-10-6 as it has a 28dia x 10mm long stator. I used 6 windings of 3-strand 0.35mm wire with a delta connection and a distributed winding pattern. It spins 12,300 RPM @ 23.3A with a 8×4 Graupner SLIM prop.
This 350-20 is the biggest motor I’ve built so far. The 12-tooth
I’ve been running out of money lately so I have been thinking about going to Albertson’s (local Grocery store) to redeem all my hard earned dimes and pennies. Here’s a hack that let’s you get your paper cash back without paying for the 9%… (Well, this is informational purposes only, do not use unless you are broke like me and about to end up on the streets)
This is really quite simple. Follow the directions as usual, but when it asks how you would like your money, make su
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Here’s a trebuchet you can make this weekend! Try catching some marshmellows using your trebuchet. :p
TTA (Try and try again, also optimize…)
Here’s the pdf if you need it.
In this podcast you’ll see how to build a paperclip trebuchet and a medium sized trebuchet. The paperclip trebuchet can be made in under an hour and it teaches you a lot about how they work.
The
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Check out this video with cool hacks in one made by a crazy mad scientist!
Hacked Gadgets friend FastMHz has been busy doing all sorts of experiments, and this crazy mad scientist has captured it on tape for our enjoyment! Not sure if all fingers and toes are still accounted for, I think I would be hiding (cowering) behind something solid for most of these tests.
After watching the video those wall mounted can crushers seem so useless, I wan
Kinda neat creation, a tank bot. Check it out dude. Also check out videos and circuits.
Cool, Makezine has another cool new blog called Hackzine. Some quick links to their newest posts:
Here’s a tight little project that can cost very little to make if you need to make your own GPS data logging system for your next hiking or outdoor adventure!
This project focused on creating a simple serial data logger for the Delorme Tripmate (also known as the GPSTripmate). The Tripmate is an older GPS receiver that can be purchased on eBay for < $20. I happen to hav
If you have been following the web lately, you should know what Google pageranks are and what Googlebombing is. Just in case you don’t know, Google Pageranks are some type of crazy algorithm that determines how important your website is on Google search engine. They recently changed it to prevent Googlebombing, which is a method of bombing certain keywords to get on the top of the search list. For example, you can tag a completely random phrases
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Here’s an interesting video on making your wifi encrypted at 2048 bits! The video itself is kinda crappy (not that I can make a better video), but the information is great. I wonder how long it will take to crack 2048bit WEP…if there is one…
Yes, we need to do something about these keys for touch-screen voting machines… These keys were COPIED via pictures! Why are they using such outdated technology for high-tech touch-screens? Leave comments!
It was revealed in the course of last summer’s landmark virus hack of a Diebold touch-screen voting system at Princeton University that, incredibly, the company uses the same key to open every
